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Gov. Rick Perry ‘s recent comments claiming President Obama hasn’t responded to an inquiry for more border security aid from three years ago has been declared outright false by one fact-checking website.

Perry made the comment to Wolf Blitzer during an appearance on CNN’s “The Situation Room” at the beginning of April. He told Blitzer “the president hadn’t called up the governor of one of the largest states who has the longest border with Mexico and said, ‘Governor what do you think we need to do about the issue of immigration?’ I would be open to that conversation any day.”

He noted he’d given Obama a letter in 2010 on the tarmac of an Austin airport about the issue and hadn’t received a response.

Politifact deemed Perry’s comment as “pants on fire” lie. The fact checking website found that a follow up letter had been delivered to Perry several days later by current CIA Director John Brennan, who was at the time, an assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism. Politifact said the letter didn’t address a lot of Perry’s concerns written in his letter, but noted the Southwest Border Security Act Obama signed several days after his Texas visit that provided more security along the border.

The fact-checking website concluded Perry’s claim false.

“We grant that it might not have contained the answers Perry sought, but saying Perry has yet to get any response strikes us as both inaccurate and ridiculous.”

This isn’t the first time a statement made by the governor has been dubbed a “pants on fire.” Of the 130 statements scrutinized by Politifact, 13 have been given ruled outright false. Another 33 were ruled to be “half true”.

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